11 conspiracy theories about search, Google and Big Tech

March 22, 2022 big tech, nazi

Archived 5 years ago from Search Engine Land
11 conspiracy theories about search, Google and Big Tech

Conspiracy theories are everywhere online. Few are shockingly true, most are not, but one shared trait among all conspiracy theories is that a simple truth could be mixed up in a murky sludge of fact and fiction. This is especially true for conspiracy theories related to search, Big Tech and …

Conspiracy

March 21, 2022 5g, bill gates, cdc, china, covid19

Archived 2 years ago from Frontiers
Racialized Pandemic: The Effect of Racial Attitudes on COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory Beliefs

Introduction Starting early in 2020, the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, commonly known as COVID-19) rapidly spread across the globe, coupled by a wildfire of related misinformation and conspiracy theories. Media coverage of these conspiracy theories, particularly early on in the pandemic, had …

Revealed: The Powerful D.C. Attorney Quietly Defending Alex Jones Against Sandy Hook Parents

Conspiracy

March 17, 2022 2020 election, alex jones, nazi, pizzagate, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from Rolling Stone
Revealed: The Powerful D.C. Attorney Quietly Defending Alex Jones Against Sandy Hook Parents

I began writing Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth in 2018, nearly six years after the 2012 shooting deaths of 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. That year, the families of 10 Sandy Hook victims sued conspiracy theorist …

Fauci Continues Making Public Appearances and Hasn’t ‘Disappeared’

Conspiracy

March 17, 2022 cdc, covid19, fauci, russia, ukraine

Archived 5 years ago from FactCheck.org
Fauci Continues Making Public Appearances and Hasn’t ‘Disappeared’

SciCheck Digest Dr. Anthony Fauci has continued making public appearances, although news coverage has largely shifted away from the pandemic since Russia invaded Ukraine in February and COVID-19 cases have dramatically fallen. Some politicians and pundits, however, have suggested that Fauci has …

Conspiracy

March 15, 2022 bill gates, epstein, fauci, george soros, roswell, ufos

Archived 1 year ago from Yahoo!
Conspiracy theorists, UFO hunters among first to flock to Obama’s …

Exactly five years after President Obama left office the public got its first chance to request the secret files archived by the administration in January – and hundreds took the opportunity.While many requests focus on touchstones in the Obama presidency and White House politics, more than a third …

Reckless Associations: A New Tort for a New Information Ecosystem

Conspiracy

March 15, 2022 alex jones, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from Lawfare
Reckless Associations: A New Tort for a New Information Ecosystem

On Feb. 24, a poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute found that 16 percent of Americans believe the central tenets of the QAnon conspiracy. That figure is larger than it was shortly after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. But lawmakers are still struggling to figure out how …

Conspiracy

March 14, 2022 5g, alex jones, antivax, covid19, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from The New Statesman
From QAnon to anti-vax: Can you cure a conspiracy theorist?

QAnon supporters at a political rally in Bucharest. Image courtesy of Mircea Moira / Shutterstock Jitarth Jadeja first fell down the rabbit hole when Donald Trump won the presidential election on 9 November 2016. As an Australian who had previously lived in the US, he had developed an avid interest …

Conspiracy

March 11, 2022 2020 election, qanon

Archived 5 years ago from Chicago Sun-Times
Far-right conspiracy theorists file to run for governor, Senate in GOP primary

A suburban high school staffer. A former Chicago Police sergeant. A South Side college professor. None of them believe the 2020 election results were legitimate. Some of them seem to promote the spread of much darker conspiracy theories even more detached from reality — namely, that a global cabal …

Conspiracy

March 11, 2022

Archived 5 years ago from WIRED
Sandy Hook and the Troubling Psychology of Conspiracy Theories

Sandy Hook Hoax was a closed Facebook group; you needed an invitation to join. Its page was topped with the image of a child ghoul, her eyes ringed in black, a mud-encrusted finger pressed to her lips. Its nightly discussions drew from a dozen to a couple hundred people. Some still struggled with …

Ukraine conflict shows Gen Z isn’t immune to misinformation online

Conspiracy

March 11, 2022 qanon, ukraine

Archived 5 years ago from NBC News
Ukraine conflict shows Gen Z isn’t immune to misinformation online

It can sometimes feel as though digital natives are impervious to misinformation. At least that’s what some think. But TikToker Jules Terpak is keeping her Gen Z peers humble. “We grew up making fun of our parents’ and grandparents’ falling for spam emails, but every single day I see young people …

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